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# How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power Hardcover – 17 May 2019

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        			&quot;Extensively researched, How States Shaped Postwar America leaps beyond the history of state and municipal politics to address state governance&apos;s role in urban issues in housing finance, public health, infrastructure, and education. Bloom provides a rich history of state governments&apos; role in addressing urban challenges. The result is a major contribution to the understanding of state government and its impact on urban policy.&quot;--Susan M. Wachter &quot;The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania &quot;&quot;Bloom makes a forceful argument that scholars of urban history and planning miss important aspects of urban development if they ignore the role played by state governments. How States Shaped Postwar America aims to document that role. In clearly written and very readable prose, Bloom covers an impressive range of policy areas and offers succinct, cogent analysis of policy developments and the state&apos;s role within them.&quot;--Tracy Steffes &quot;author of School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940 &quot;&quot;Bloom&apos;s book breaks new ground and makes a real contribution. It is a needed corrective to historians&apos; neglect of state government and superbly illuminates the role of the states in metropolitan development.&quot;--Jon Teaford &quot;author of The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America &quot;&quot;Bloom provides a needed reminder of how significant state governments were to urban development and planning in the mid-twentieth century. . . . The moral of the many stories is that in today&apos;s political climate, urban Americans may again need to look to state governments.&quot;--Planning&quot;Highly recommended. . . Bloom&apos;s carefully crafted work persuasively shows that without the intervention of states, large public systems in fields such as education, transportation, housing, and the environment might not exist or would be unrecognizable today.&quot;--Choice&quot;An important read for anyone wishing to expand their understanding of the relationship between cities and state governments.&quot;--Journal of Urban Affairs&quot;How States Shaped Postwar America is a welcome addition to a body of scholarship that has, with rare exceptions, almost completely ignored state governments. At its best, the book shows the subtle ways that state officials shaped the postwar metropolis through clever governing techniques like cosigning the debt issues for infrastructure projects, decentralizing the campuses for public universities, and funneling state tax revenues for the maintenance of highway networks.&quot;--The Gotham Center for New York History
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of history at New York Institute of Technology.

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